Australian Personal Computer
September 1986
Volume 7, Number 9
Regulars
Newsprint
Gyu Kewney keeps track of the industry and, what's this - wins an award for software sales?
Yankee Doodles
David Ahl presents super-fast semiconductors, voice recognition systems, plus the rest of the news from across the pacific
Banks' Statement
Martin pontificates, and the world listens
Subscriptions
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Letters
Our correspondence column
What's New
A new monthly feature to monitor the plethora of product announcements each month.
Screenplay
Microsoft's Flight Simulator takes off on the Macintosh
Communications
The new word on online services
Subset
David Barrow's latest machine routines
End Zone
APC's information column includes Lazing Around, Diary Data, Numbers Count, microchess and a Benchmarks Listing
Program File
A sideways printing routine for Turbo pascal users features among programs from this month's collection
ChipChat
IRD is bacxk with more survey results
Ad Index
An extra-long listing this month goes hand-in-hand with APC's biggest issue ever!
Features
Maths on the Double
Samuel Dick on speeding up calculations
Slow Boat to China
Bob Couttie explains the problems of selling to the billion inhabitants of the People's Republic.
Take your Pick
The virtues of the Pick operating system
Right & Wrong
The AT series continues, as David Levy explains what distinguishes winning from losing
Simple Arithmetic
Tony Armitstead lays out an alternative to floating decimals, and guides you through the design of fixed-point algorithms
Special Feature
Graphics to suite all pallettes
Paulo Baccanello introduces our survey of products designed to enhance the display capability of PCs. He leads off by putting the market into perspective and finds products are aimed at two different types of user: the business user and the designer.
Adapting to the video age
Ian Davies and Paulo Baccanello look at video adaptor cards and the standards that have been established.
Hercules Graphics Card Plus
Will Hercules' latest release keep the company at the forefront of add-on video cards? Ron Dunn has some doubts.
Next month, APC's Graphics Special continues with a look at what graphics and CAD/CAM packages are available as well as surveying the monitor marketplace.
Benchtests and Reviews
NEC APC IV
The Japanese electronics giant has acknowledged the dominance of IBM's PC and has at last produced a truly compatible machine. Phil Cohen brings us this exclusive Benchtest.
MicroWriter
Kester Cranswick tests a six keyed alternative to the qwerty keyboard and likes what he sees.
Sharp PC-1600
Packing more punch per cubic centimetre, Sharp's latest pocket computer looks like a winner.
GEOS
Commodore 64 and 128 users can now have a Macintosh-like user interface. Kevin Bergin decides whether he will upgrade
RBase 5000
Microrim's highly-rated database is now sold by Microsoft. Kathy Lang investigates its credentials
Microsoft Word 3
Ben Woolley looks looks at the latest release of this professional word processor
Homebase
Another set of pop-up utilities for te PC, with Simon Williams in the driving seat.
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